october reads: for good &/or spooky
weekly reading book reviews happen each monday over on my instagram. (and now youtube, too.)
gathered here are all of october’s episodes— complete with links below which shall take you to the titles on bookshop.org where you can support indie booksellers AND get happy book mail. :)
many happy, magical, colourful reads to you!
xo,
*hallie :)
✨📖 weekly reading book review october 2024: episode one!! 📖✨
here’s what i read this week:
💙 FUNNY STORY by emily henry
🐰 BUNNICULA by deborah & james howe
🔍 THE PERILS OF LADY CATHERINE de BOURGH by claudia gray
currently reading:
🖤 RAVENFALL by kalyn josephson (thank you, @randomhousekids #randomhousekidspartner 🙌🏽)
currently watching:
🎬 THE BOY & THE HERON (imdb link here)
might read next:
😎 THE PARIS WINDOW by kimberly belle
🧡 THE QUEEN OF OCEAN PARKWAY by sarvenaz tash
with grocery shopping & laundry on the surrealist horizon,
❤️xo,
*hallie 🤓
👉🏽 BIG update (& new poll) up in the crayon box!! check the latest post at http://www.patreon.com/halthegal !! 🤫🖍️
✨📖 weekly reading book review october 2024: episode two!! 📖✨
this week i read:
🍁 RAVENFALL by kalyn josephson
💚 THE PARIS WIDOW by kimberly belle
🐀 GRAVEYARD SHIFT by m.l.rio
💜 FERN’S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD FAE: THE GRAVEYARD GIFT as told to piper cj
finished watching:
🎬 THE BOY & THE HERON
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6587046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
currently reading:
🧡 THE PUMPKIN PRINCESS AND THE FOREVER NIGHT by steven banbury
RE-reading next:
😱 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by shirley jackson
& maybe: 📝 MEANDER, SPIRAL, EXPLODE by jane alison
keeping the lights on now that i have electricity and too many things go bump in the night these days,
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓
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👉🏽 as mentioned: CRAYON BOXERS!! big exciting update + MY felix picture book dummy preview video coming later today!!
🖍️ (if you’re not yet in the crayon box, you can try it free for a week with the link in my bio! & if you decide to stay: a welcome pack + october’s vinyl sticker happy mail are in your future!! 🥰📬🥳 🙏🏽💜)
✨📖 weekly reading book review october 2024: episode three!! 📖✨
this week i read:
🎃 THE PUMPKIN PRINCESS & THE FOREVER NIGHT by steven banbury
✒️ A STROKE OF THE PEN: THE LOST STORIES by terry pratchett (indie bookstore edition from @malapropsbookstore !!)
🧡 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by shirley jackson
miiiiiight read next:
💛 THE HOTEL BALZAAR by kate dicamillo
🎨 ART CLUB by rashad doucet
🌊 THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM by laura dave
i also got to see:
💖 &juliet at the peace center in greenville, sc
https://andjulietbroadway.com/
& watched:
🎬 CENTER STAGE (the 2000 film of students at the ABA; a movie of which i was only previously familiar with mandy moore‘s single I WANNA BE WITH YOU 🥰🩰🎶)
what stories did you love this week?!
😄✒️🫖🏈📺🎭🎧📝📓📚💜
trying to distract myself while waiting for 🤫,
🤞🏽xo,
*hallie 🤓
✨📖 weekly reading book review october 2024: episode four!! 📖✨
this week i read:
🌊 THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM by laura dave
🧡 THE HOTEL BALZAAR by kate diCamillo
🌸 THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR by yoko ogawa
👻 THEODORA HENDRIX AND THE MONSTROUS LEAGUE OF MONSTERS by jordan kopy
currently reading:
🙀 WE SOLVE MURDERS by richard osman
currently watching:
🎬 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (2014; staged by julie taymor)
had a grand book club chat about:
🧡 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by shirley jackson
miiiiiiight read next:
🩷 THE SECRET LANGUAGE by ursula nordstrom
(out of print, but this one's on my wishlist: https://bookshop.org/a/5254/9780064462358 )
💡 STAGE FRIGHT by wendy parris
🩰 THE STILL POINT by tammy greenwood
💙 RUTHLESS VOWS by rebecca ross
what stories are you loving right now?!
😄✏️🎧🎭🎨📗🎬📚🥰
stay safe out there & eat a glow*in*the*dark snickers for me
(& maybe some bottle caps),
💜xo,
*hallie 🤓
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bonus info:
👉🏽 i’ll be painting and reading and prepping november’s crayon box happy sticker mail this week!! not to late to get october’s sticker, either! http://www.patreon.com/HalTheGal
👉🏽 all my fave book recs {by category!} are on my bookshop.org affiliate page
https://bookshop.org/shop/halthegal
supporting indie bookstores (& my book hoarding/reviews for you!!)
👉🏽 & i think you’re pretty neat.
super faves of the month…
there was nary a dud in all the books i read this month.. but because i must needs share the highlights stack each month, here are a handful of super*standouts...
bunnicula by deborah and james howe
a classic i can't believe i hadn't read before.
hilarious, charming, silly, and only sorta*spooky. and narrated by the family dog. perfection.
the pumpkin princess and the forever night by steven banbury
a lot of spook*tacular world*building and an orphan story like no other i'd read.
she's fearless. but also needs to find how to belong.
the hotel balzaar by kate diCamillo
queen kate can do no wrong, and her latest teeny tiny middle grade book full of interlocking mini*tales is a lonely gal in a bleak wes anderson film dream of an escape and happy ending.
a stroke of the pen: the lost stories by terry pratchett
i wouldn't dislike short stories if they were all this short and surprising and smart.
the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson.
a classic re*read in the name of a vigorous book club discussion makes me continue to wonder why i don't read as many classics as i used to.
the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa
a charming, thought-provoking tale of the beauty of math, the power of inter-generational friendships and the promises of love and memory to prove patient.